drawn too abruptly, and needed more explanation."--_Ib._, p.
229. "They must be used with more caution, and require more preparation."--
_Ib._, p. 153. "The apostrophe denotes the omission of an _i_, which was
formerly inserted, and made an addition of a syllable to the word."--
_Priestley's Gram._, p. 67. "The succession may be rendered more various or
more uniform, but in one shape or an other is unavoidable."--_Kames, El. of
Crit._, i. 253. "It excites neither terror nor compassion, nor is agreeable
in any respect."--_Ib._, ii, 277.

"Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords
No flight for thoughts, but poorly stick at words."--_Denham_.

UNDER NOTE VII.--MIXTURE OF DIFFERENT STYLES.

"Let us read the living page, whose every character delighteth and
instructs us."--_Maunder's Gram._, p. 5. "For if it be in any degree
obscure, it puzzles, and doth not please."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 357.
"When a speaker addresseth himself to the understanding, he proposes the
instruction of his hearers."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 13. "As the wine which
strengthens and refresheth the heart."--_H. Adams's View_, p. 221. "This
truth he wrappeth in an allegory, and feigns that one of the goddesses had
taken up her abode with the other."--_Pope's Works_, iii, 46. "God
searcheth and understands the heart."--_Thomas a Kempis_. "The grace of
God, that brings salvation hath appeared to all men."--_Barclays Works_, i,
366. "Also we speak not in the words, which man's wisdom teaches; but which
the Holy Ghost teacheth."--_Ib._, i, 388. "But he hath an objection, which
he urgeth, and by which he thinks to overturn all."--_Ib._, iii, 327. "In
that it gives them not that comfort and joy which it giveth unto them who
love it."--_Ib._, i, 142. "Thou here misunderstood the place and
misappliedst it."--_Ib._, iii, 38. "Like the barren heath in the desert,
which knoweth not when good comes."--_Friends' Extracts_, p. 128; _N. E.
Discip._, p. 75. "It speaketh of the time past, but shews that something
was then doing, but not quite finished."--_E. Devis's Gram._, p. 42. "It
subsists in spite of them; it advanceth unobserved."--PASCAL: _Addison's
Evidences_, p. 17.

"But where is he, the Pilgrim of my song?--
Methinks he cometh late and tarries long."--_Byron_, Cant. iv, St. 164.

UNDER NOTE VII.--CONFUSION OF MOODS.

"If a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them is gone astray,
&c."--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 227 with 197. "As a s